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A Short Introduction to Theoretical Mechanics

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A Short Introduction to Theoretical Mechanics
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Publisher: Archive.org
Number of pages: 201

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Contents: Introduction; Generalized Coordinate Systems; Differential Equations; One Dimensional Motion; Motion of a Particle in Two and Three Dimensions; Accelerated Frames of Reference; Systems of Interacting Particles; Systems of Interacting Particles: Two or Three Particles; Systems of Interacting Particles: Rigid Bodies; The Special Theory of Relativity.

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